Adobe Illustrator: Page 5

Ah, falling leaves: They remind of the beauty of nature, fall, and the changing of seasons. And if you've ever walked alongside a row of oaks on the street it seems as if their leaves fall to some unknown, hidden perfect orchestration.

Learn about using smart objects created in Illustrator and taking them into Photoshop and then Dreamweaver.

Creating a silhouette from a photo is nothing new, but with Illustrator CS4's new Blob Brush tool, it has become a lot easier. Corey demonstrates how to use the Blog Brush tool to create a silhouette, and how to create some quick background effects using the Gradient Mesh tool.

This tutorial will show you how to use live paint in Illustrator. Using live paint in CS2 recognizes empty spaces even those with gaps.

The suite nouveau - in this video tutorial from Caffè Fibonacci, Join Tim and Rufus as they toast to the CS Nouveau, and introduce some cool new features of Adobe InDesign CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4. See how to use new features in Adobe Illustrator CS4 and InDesign CS4.

Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 3, or CS3, software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. But having the program isn't enough; you'll need to know how to use it. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use the live trace and live paint features in Adobe Illustrator CS3.

Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 4, or CS4, software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. But having the program isn't enough; you'll need to know how to use it. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to incorporate text into your Adobe Illustrator CS4 illustrations. For more...

Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 4, or CS4, software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. But having the program isn't enough; you'll need to know how to use it. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to scale and rotate vector images in Adobe Illustrator CS4.

Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 4, or CS4, software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. But having the program isn't enough; you'll need to know how to use it. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use color groups and harmonies in the 14th iteration of Illustrator, Adobe...

Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 4, or CS4, software is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. But having the program isn't enough; you'll need to know how to use it. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to export artboards to Flash from within Illustrator CS4.

RC Concepcion, Host of Layers TV, goes over a couple of tips on how to setup a single page publication with multiple text boxes and a clipping mask. This 3 minute Illustrator tutorial is set to get you up to speed with the basics as quick as possible. So watch and learn how to create a single page with multiple text boxes and clipping masks in this Illustrator how-to.

In this software tutorial Barton Damer explains the hidden secrets behind Adobe Illustrator's pattern brush. Watch and learn how to create an intricate and unique pattern with the pattern brush in Illustrator CS3. Some of the graphic elements used in the tutorial come from the Go Media arsenal sets.

In this software tutorial, Corey demonstrates how easy it is to create 3D graphs using Illustrator. You don't have to run to Microsoft Excel anymore to get good looking charts and graphs. OK, well you do if you need super accurate data fast, but not if you just need some 3D graph effects! Create 3D graphs in Illustrator instead with the help of this tutorial.

Create and edit complex gradients with the new Gradient tool in Illustrator CS4, which has undergone a complete makeover. There's a new reverse gradient button, and gradient widgets that allow users to edit applied gradients visually. There are also new transparency options. Cheryl Graham explores these new features of the Gradient tool in Illustrator CS4 and takes viewers through a quick design project, creating the ringed planet of Saturn.

This software tutorial shows you just how easy it is to design a great looking logo in Adobe Illustrator. As with any other software package, it's all about getting to know the interface; and then from there it's all about developing your design skills. As with most others, I started out designing logos in Photoshop because that's the only program that was available to me. But Illustrator offers one advantage when it comes to designing logos, and that's one of being 100% vector. You want a logo...

This software tutorial shows you how to create a photorealistic mesh shape in Illustrator. You should have a good understanding of Adobe Illustrator since the tutorial is visual only with no text or verbal instruction. If you want to use the mesh shape tool in Illustrator to give your objects realism, this tutorial will help.

Tutorial/demonstration showing how to use Calligraphic Brushes in Illustrator to do line drawings (inking) and then import them into Photoshop as a Smart Object to retain the vector quality of the line art. By using clipping masks, we can change the color of the line art without rasterizing.

The document startup profiles in Illustrator CS3 allow users to save key information about a document and then use these blank templates for later projects. They can be assigned with specialized settings for every type of project so that when you start a new document, everything is set just the way you need it.

Here's a useful design technique: Scott Weichert demonstrates how to create a wood grain pattern using the Gradient tool and the Warp command.

Dave explains the Pathfinder palette in Illustrator and how it is used to create complex shapes without having to draw them from scratch.